Anacortes
With southeast winds howling and early rumors of whales in
Haro Strait, we thought the optimal route to start off our day would be to cut
through the inner islands. Not only did this take us into much more sheltered
waters, it was a truly breathtaking route. We worked our way up the eastern
coastline of Blakely, spying mature bald eagles and pacific madronas as we did.
We stopped to visit with harbor seals at Seal Rock, and continued through
Peavine Pass into the heart of the San Juans. This brought us out past Spieden
Island, where we stopped to visit with many Steller sea lions! We worked our way around the back side of
Spieden, finding many bald eagles as we did. Now in the zone of where the
morning's report of whales should have been, we searched thoroughly around
Stuart, western Boundary Pass, Sidney Island and more, working with our fellow
captains along the way to divide up the search ground. Unfortunately, the
reports never materialized, but it was not for lack of effort. We enjoyed
cruising the southern coastline of Spieden Island, finding large herds of mouflon
sheep, sika deer and fallow deer. We continued the search for whales all the
way back to the marina, cruising south down San Juan Channel and out Thatcher
Pass towards Rosario. While we never did find whales, no one can take away the
truly spectacular adventure we had on the water. We look forward to inviting
all of today's passengers back for another trip in the future!
-Sam
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